Fragment 003 03: The first lines of the thesis have been taken from a source that is mentioned nowhere in the thesis. The copy is verbatim and there is indication that it has been produced via copy & paste.

At times the copied text is adapted to the topic of the thesis (roughly: the effect of radiation on the rat liver), which brings up the question whether the copied text is still valid after that adaptation:

Two dissertations submitted at the same department have been used as source for substantial text borrowings, predominantly but not only for the methods and materials sections: Zibrova (2004), Sheikh (2006)

The publication has 81 pages that have been analyzed. On a total of 29 of these pages violations of citation rules have been documented. This represents a percentage of 35.8%. The 81 analyzed pages break down with respect to the amount of text parallels encountered as follows:

From these statistics an extrapolation of the amount of text of the publication under investigation that has been documented as problematic can be estimated (conservatively) as about 19% of the main part of the publication.